Funmi Ogundare
The Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Wahab Alawiye-King has expressed the board’s readiness to ensure transparency and accountability in the distribution of food, as it targets 37,459 households in the state, as part of the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme of the federal government.
The programme seeks to provide food for pupils while they stay at home. The food support include; a take home ration consisting of 5kg bag of rice, 5kg bag of beans, 500 ml vegetable oil, 750 ml palm oil, 500 mg salt, half crate of eggs and 14gm tomato paste, targeted at pupils from primary one to three in public schools.
Speaking at the flag-off in Lagos, Alawiye-King said already, the board had gone round to verify and identify all the households that the pupils live, adding that it will be using the voucher system for easy distribution of the Take-Home Rations (THR) through its 202 centres covering about 1,016…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
